Automatic metal turning lathe



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AUTOMATIC METAL TURNING LATHE Filed April '7, 1927 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Oct. 11, 1932.

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AUTOMATIC METAL TURNING LATHE Filed lApril '7. 1927 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 l INVENTOR. W ATTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 11,;'19-32 WILLIAM WALLACE ro'r'mn, or PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND M'I'irollI-A'Hc METAL TURNING LATHE Appunti@ nica 'April 7, 1927. serial No'. 181,837.

rllhe object of the invention is to make ce1.'- JLain improvements in metal working machines and, more particularly, of the class known as automatic chucking machines. The machine which I show 1n the drawlngs, as

, one'embodiment of myginvention, has fea-I tures of construction and advantage as follows:

First. It is possible to stop the spindle` l0 While the tool slides are Operating on the fast motion and still have the feed .movements of the tool slides governed by the rotation of the work spindle.

Second. The means for driving -tool slide enable the cam drum tobe stationary during the idle movements of the slide, and therefore, the drum kept in complete synchronism with the. operatively related various other members of the machine'.

Third. Location of drum S10 that the dis-' I tance between the slide and `drum is the m1nimum and so thatthe drive from the drum to the slide is in themostdirect line possible. 'The width of the cam drum as exemplified in the case of the cross slide drum'is the minimum.

i Fourth. A more advantageous location of the cross slide actuating drum. r

Fifth. VMeans for instantaneously operating any of thecontrolling clutchesl on the machine automatically bypower and at any time. vi Y i Sixth. An advantageous construction of the Ways of the machine..

The invention consists in lwhatever is described by oris included within the terms or scope of the appended claims.

In the drawlngs: Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of a machine embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is an end elevation looking from the headstock end of the machine; through the jFig. 3 is a horizontal. section headstock;

.45 Fig. 4 is a rear view' with partsin section,

ofthe feed shaft and feed gear box with some Vof theparts shown out of position toybetter illustrate the construction; 1

- Fig. '5 is an end elevation of the same with F the shafts in their proper position;

pingmechanism;

Fig, 6 is a cross section on line 1'1-11 of FigQl; i I

Fig'. 7. is an end elevation ofthe headstock end of the machine showing the control dog drum and the back facer mechanism;

Fig. 8 isa side elevation thereof.

Fig. 9 is a plan viewof the .clutchoperating mechanism;

Fig. 10 is an end view ofthe shipping box thereof.; j 00 Figs. 11, 12 and 13 are detail views of ship Fig. V14 is 'asection on the line 19-19, Figi);V Fig. 15 is a section on line 20.-20,`Fig. 11;, 05 Fig.` 16` is a detail viewpartly in section, of the latch block for the feed control;

Figs 17 to 20 are detail viewsthereof;

Fig. 21 is a detail cross section of one of 1 v the slide ways; i v .70 Fig. 22 is an end elevation of the timing box, looking from the headstock;

Fig. 23 is a rear elevation ofthe same, partly in section; j v y Fig. 24 is 'a detail of the timing box 'showf 75 ing the clutch shifting mechanism; f

Fig. 25v is a detail view ofthe cam indexing mechanism of the timing box; ,i

Fig. 26 is 'a diagrannnatic view showing the. development Vof the timing cam.

It will conduce to a better understanding f the detailed description which follows to give in advance a general description of the machine shown in the drawings, asone embodiment of the invention,v Said machine comprises a headstock in which is mounted a horizontal work spindle, which carries a Y chuck and `is lprovided with turret andcross slides, which are reciprocated by cam drums that/are geared to and receive motion from '90 a. feed shaft. Thefspindle and the feed shaft may be revolved at different speeds which are automatically selected, and there is a' driving connection between-the. spindle and the feed shaft by which the rate of feed movements of the tools is controlled: by the spindle speed,

and provision is made by which during the idle movements of the tools towards and from the Work which are produced by a constant high speed shaft, the rotation of the. spindle 10 will be stopped so that during su ch idle movements of the tools the Work piece in the chuck will not be revolved, one advantage of which is that tool marks on the Work due to unintentional. or accidental contact of tools in their idle motions cannot o ccur. The change speed gearing ufor varying the 'rate of rvolu` tion of the spindle and of'the'feedsliaft in` cludes clutches that are under the control of'V a dog wheeler drum,1.\vhich though its ple-@ ripheral motion at the time the clutches are and 25, to shaft 21', and when both gears 22,

to be shifted is very sloweresults. in instantaneousshifting' of the clutches,becaus ethedogs are utilized merely to tripdevices which rel quire but little dog Wheel motion forthat purpose that bring into action power-operat ed, clutchfshifting.- .I nechanisln, which -ineludes afconstantlyreciprocating member ale `'explanation'indetailof .what is .alle l shaft 18 which shaft 18, by

Weis"radyip'remptly to* act .anillo 110 through powerfto instantaneously 4shift ythe clutche important feature of the machine-iiin this connection is the possibility while a particular .tool is cutting to increase the speed'f feed to compensate for reduction @trat-e. Qfalvelutien. Oft-11e. work as. the 11001 proceeds from the Work periphery inward, the importance ofthis.' feature lyingin'the 'fact that it means more rapid productionsof Workbythe machine. Y 1 30 "th this brief .or general description,.the i shown in the drawingswillnow be2 undertaken. t 3:, Referring particularly to Figs. 1,2and 3, it will be seen that in the headstock-lO, is .journalled thehorizontal spindle 11 having 'atfo'ne end the'work-holding'-chuclgv12, and that by. trains o f gearing tpresently to be described," the yspindle may -bevdriven at any oneof several speeds lfrom aparallel shaft, 13, uponwhichisloosely mounted a band pulley14,to which driving power is supplied, and which by aV frition'- clutch 15,m'ay be .clutched t0 or disconneled. from .the shaft 13, ythe clutch ,15,being operated as hereinafter explained.l Keyed tol thel spindle is a *gear 16, in mesh with a pinion '17, on a par;-

gears 19`and 20, isgeared to another parallel shaft,v 21 which by two trains of gearslfis connected with the shaft, 13. One of these trains; fconsists ofa gear. 22, loose onthe shaft13, which may by a .f'clutch 23, be clutched to and unclutched from said shaft, a gear24, meshing Y shaft .25 and a gear 26, meshing with gear 24, and loose on shaft 21, which whenclutched thereto by a 'friction clutch 27, drives the s haft121, and

through gears, 19 and V20, drivesthe spindle.

Anothergear train between the pulley driven shaft 13, and shaft 21, includes gear 28keyed lto sh aft^13,a gear 29, meshing with gear 2 8,

' on 'slhaft'25.,l and adapted bya well-known ratchet 'devicev (not shown) tobeclut-ched to ShaftQ', whenthe latter does not rvreiye mo tion from gear 24, a pinion,'3;0, fiXedto shaft Hemd .te Shaft, at the con'stantand speed desired Afor idle 25 and 2 6 are unclutched from their respective shafts, the fdrive from shaft 13 to the spindleisf through the train .that 'includes gears 13, 29, 30l and'31. Thus, the .spindle may be run at various speeds through the va,-

lr-ious trains shown. And when the shaft13,

is unclutched .from the drive pulley 14,-by shifting clutclil, thenthe spindle' stops, and to ,assure that it shall then instantly stop, a friction brake, 32, is keyed to the shaft, 13, which is moved into contactwitha stationary brake' body .33, on v.the headstock, when the clutch, 15,1is disengaged, the' same sliding collar'or vthimble,^34, operated by the same yoke, 35, acting on both clutch and brake.

. The ,driving-;co nnect iony between spindle and. feed shaft bywhichthe spindle speeds and toolfeeds are tiedtogether duringcutting includes a gear 3 6, on the spindle, a vgear 37, meshingy thereivithfon a shaft 38, (see Figs. 2 and 4) a sprocket .wheel 39, on shaft' 38, a sprocket chain 40,fro1n Wheel 39, to a lwheel 4.1, on a shaft. 42, agear 43, on shaft 42, mesh- ,ing with/and driving a gear 44, on shaft 45, by one ofvseveral A trains of .gears vof various s peeds, .vdrives a sha ft 46,. which by 'ga clutch 47,'maybe'clutche`d to or '.unclutched from the feed vshaft 48, that extends longitudinally at` the backofthe machine, and, as afterwards explained., has driving connections with .the cam drums .for the turret and l,'rirossfslide andfwith the `dog Wheel o rv drum lUU cutting, said feed shaft may be revolved at ahigh and Constant speed lfor theidle motions of the tool slides, independentlyof the spin-y dle by power taken from the driving pulley 1.4. Forthis purposeagroovedl pulley149,

is fixed to the driving pulley 14, anda V.belt 5,.

.50, connects itwith a' grooved. pulleyr51, on a shaft 52, carriedbyan arm 5 3, vthat is` pivoted to shaft ,46, foradjustment to tighten :the belt, and a pinion r54, on shaft 52,1meshing with and driving a gear 55, loose on shaft 46,

but which: by a slidingaclutch. collar) 56,'Shift.- ableby. ayoke A 57, vinto engagement with a clutch V58, on shaft46,n1ay be driviiigly oo n- 46, and thus the latter .be run motions of the tools.

The several trains of'gearing for changing the feed shaft speed, are best shown in Figs. 4 and 5 (being shown out of proper relation to some extent in Fig. 4 to clarify the illus'- tration), and they will now be described.

Shaft 45,has keyed to it hand change gear 59, meshing with hand change gear 60, keyed to shaft 61, to which shaft is also keyed pinion 62, meshing with clutch gear 63. Also keyed to shaft 45, is pinion 64, which through reduction gears 65 and 66, keyed to shaft 67, and gears 68, keyed to shaft 69, drives shaft 69. On one end of shaft 69, is hand change gear 70, meshing with hand change gear 61, which drives ratchet gear 72, on shaft 73, through shaft 74 and pinion 75. Also keyed to shaft 69, is change gear 76, meshing with change gear 77, which drives clutch gear 7 8,`

through shaft 79 and pinion 80. Clutch gears 63 and 78, are free to rotate on shaft,

73, to which is slidably keyed'clutch sleeve 81, so that shaft 73, may be driven either by clutch gear 78, clutch gear 63, or by neither, in which case, ratchet gear 72, picks up the load. Clutch sleeve 81, is operated by yoke 82, in the manner hereinafter described.

Keyed to shaft 73, is pinion 83, meshing with ratchet gear 84, which is keyed to shaft 46. It is therefore seen that .shaft 46, may be driven at any one of three varying speeds by spindle 11, through ratchet gear 84, or when clutch sleeve 56, is brought into mesh'with clutch 58, it may be driven at a high constant speed by pulley 14. In this case, shaft 46, rolls away from ratchet gear 84.

As has been stated, the feed shaft 48, drives turret cam drum 85, and which revolves on shaft 86, through a gear connection which includes a bevel gear 86, on the feed shaft, meshing with a like gear 88, on a worm shaft' 89, and a worm wheel 90, on the drum end. The cam path 91, of the drum engages a cam roll 92, secured to the underside of a bar 93, longitudinally movable ofthe slide for adjustment. In order to get the drum and slide as close together as possible and secure avsubstantially direct thrust from the cam on the slide roller in the direction of travel of the slide in cutting, the drumI is situated excentrically above the center of the circular door or hole 96, which is provided in the end wall of the machine frame for inserting the drum, and the center of which door hole must be sufficiently low to provide metal enough at the frame top to give adequate strength. The turret unlocking and revolving mechanism is not shown, a's it forms no part of the present invention. Itis s ufiicient to say that the motions of such parts are derived from a gear 98, secured to the cam drum, 85,.

The cross slide 100, on a baselOl, is reciprocated by a cam drum 102, which with its associated parts is mounted outside the ma chine base or housing, see Fig. 6, Wholly to one side of the Work chuck, so that chips or cuttings from the work do not fall thereon,

but have a clear open space in the housing directly below the chuck 4in which to fall, Y

and lso that the cam drum and its associated parts arevery readily accessible. The cam drum has two, or plural sets of cams 103 and v a corresponding number of rolls or studs,

104, are attached to the cross slide for the respective cams, and the cams are spaced circumferentially of the drum, so that they both are within the planes of the drum sides so they come into action .in succession on stud 104, comprises a head which is engaged by the cam and a reduced stem or spindle 105, j ournalled in ball bearings in the cross slide. The less friction on the stem than between the head and cam assures the revolution of the stud, or roller, from the'cam friction, and

obviates' a defect of the usual 'roller construc- Y tion which does not revolve. l

The cross slide drum is driven by the feed shaft as follows: On the feed shaft is gear 106, which meshes with gear 107, loose .on shaft 108, and having a clutch face with which may be meshed or unmeshed the opposing clutch face of a sliding gear 108. This gear meshes with an intermediate' gear,v109, which meshes with gear 111, on shaft 112. Keyed to shaft, 112, is Worm 113, meshing with worm gear 114, which is screwed to cam Y drum 102, and thus drives it. The lfeed thrust on cam 102, is taken up by opposite shoes, 115, and 116, placed to take the thrust.

As has been before stated, slidable gear 108, maybe meshed with or unmeshed from gear `107, and thus impart motion to the cross slide drum or stop it. 'It is thus possible to stop the drum when it is not desirable to operate the cross slide, and that results in doing away with a lot of vacant cam surface on the drum, and making it possible to use a much smaller drum for a given cam angle and throw. The shift of gear 108, to drive, or stop the cam drum is done automatically and by mechanism-that maintains its synchronism with the correlated parts of the machine, and that will now be described.

v The machine runs on the cycle principle, that rer means of a. cam roll 122, in cam roll bearing 123, shifts clutch gear 108, by means of yoke,

124. Cain, 121, has two lands on it as shown, corresponding to the two positions of sliding dexes one tooth, and as the drive of gear 124,l

clutch gear, 108, and has various rises to shift fromrone land to another. These rises are so spaced as to take place when gear 124, 1n-

A from gear 107, is intermittent the rise takes 121, are spaced to give clutch gear 108, fifty-.

place in a very small arc of rotation of gear 107. As shown, these rises and dwells on cam two revolutions stop, eight revolutions ahead; twelve revolutions stop, eight revolutions ahead; twelve revolutions'stop, and eight revolutions ahead, thus making a total of one hundred revolutions, or one cycle. Gear 107,

has but one tooth on it co1 responding with one slot in clutch gear 108. As the shifting of gear 108, is done directly by gear 107, and in a slow, angle of rotation of the same it follows that gear 108, will always mesh with '.j gear 107, in exactly the same relative position and will always return to neutral at exactly the same place. Gear 108, is further located while in neutral 4by pin, 125, which meshes. with slot 126, in clutch gear 108.

No claim is made `herein to the specific automatic mechanism illustrated in Figs. 22 to 25, as the same forms the subject of another application for patent. Y

The feed shaft(see Figs. 8, 9, 13and 14) drives control or dog drum, 127, through bevel gears 128, and 129, worm shaft 130, Worm 131,A and worm gear 132, keyed to drum 127. Also keyed to shaft 130 is gear 133, with which pinion 134, on shaft 135, may mesh by being slid axially so that by the application of a crank to shaft, 135, the cam drums may be revolved by hand, in setting up the Inachine.

The dog wheel, by an adjustable dog, 136,"

actuates the stop clutch 47, which operatively connects the shaft 46, and the feed shaft 48 said dog 136, at the appointed time engaging and swinging stop lever, 137, which is on rock `shaft 138, that has a crank 139, (Figs. 1 and 9) that by link 140, is connected to'and actuates the yoke 124. The stop lever 137 has a. handle! for hand movement.

A safety device, not needing to be described, which is operated by the stop lever 137 prevents shifting of the pinion, 134, for

the hand movement of the cam drums while i enga-ges spring held trip finges 144, pivotedl to the lever, 142 until a push rod 145, pinned to the lever is locked by a. pivoted latch, 146, that snaps into a notch in the push rod, and thereby the clutch, 58, is thrown to start the tool feed for cutting, and when the cutisV finished another dog .147, releases the latch by contact with a pin 148, on a lever 149, on

.the .rock shaft 150, to which the latch 146 is fixed. this release of the latch permitting the -push rod to be moved byspring 151 and the clutch, 58 moved to connect the feed shaft with the high constant speed motion. The latch 146, may be released by a hand wheel 152 on the rock shaft 150.

Clutch thimble 34, which starts and stops the spindle, is controlled by dogs 153, on dog drum 127 ,that act to swing lever 154, on rock shaft 155, crank 156, link rod 157, bell crank 158, link rod 159, crank, 160, rock shaft 161. and yoke on the rock shaft. (See Figs. 1 and 3.)

The spindle speedsfand the tool feeds are automatically controlled by dogs on the dog wheel, but the actual shifting of the clutches is done by rapidly acting means whose motion is produced independently of the slow moving dogs, the dogs, by the quick release of latches, simply determlning which clutch -operating device shall be connected with said rapidly and constantly actin means. This will now be explained by re erence to Figs.

1 to 5 and 8 to 19. Meshing with and driven bygear 55, is` gear 162 `(shown outof place in Fig. 4) on shaft 163, to which Yshaft isl keyed worm 164, meshing with worm gea-r 165. Driven by worm gear 165, is a disk, 166, which carries a pivoted block 167, sliding in slotted lever 168, on shaft 169, to which is keyed crank 170, that has a pin and slot con-4 nection 171, with a reciprocating block 172, so that the latter is constantly moved to and fro.

Beneath the block 172, are a number ofparallelI bars 173, one for each clutch that is to be shifted, to each of which fingers 174,

are pivote'd that may swing vertically to en' gage the fr'ee ends with or to -disengage them from notches 175, in the underside of the sliding block 172. Each notch has an abrupt and a bevelled end, and when a finger is engaged by an abruptend the sliding` block then moves along with it the bar 173, to which the finger is attached, and shifts-the appropriate clutch, causing clutch enV agement of gears and shafts or placing clutc es in neutral posiin the direction to swing a bell crank to lift the appropriate finger into engagement with the slidable block 172, but which is restrained from Asuch action by a latch pin 181, that engages a shoulder on the plunger. The latch pin is pivoted to the upper arm of a lever, 182, pivoted to the box, whose other arm has a trip finger 183, inthe path of a dog 184, on the dog Wheel, or drum 127 and adjustable to any desired position, so that when-the lever is engaged and moved by the dog, the latch pin will be withdrawn Vand the plunger releasedso that instantly the spring will act to move the rod to lift the appropriate finger into block Vengaging position. When the finger is engaged by the bevelled end 'ofthe block notch when the block reciprocates inl that direction, the plunger is moved to compress the spring and to enable the latch pin to re-engage it.

There are two fingers on each bar 17 3, and they face in opposite directions. For throwing a clutch into neutral, the arrangement shown is employed in which a single lifting arm, 1766i, carried by one-bell crank 176, acts on both fingersso that whichever way the block moves it will act on a finger, and the notches are elongated to allow lost motion beforel a finger and the bell crank are depressed.

The bars 17 3, for shifting the spindle speed clutches, 23, and 27, are connected, respectively, by rods, 185 and 186, to the levers 187, which are connected to the sleeves of the clutches, l23V and 27 respectively by sliding rods 192 and 193 respectively, and the bar 173, for shifting the clutch 58, for changing the rate of speed of cutting is connected by a rod Y 1.73a, to the yoke-57, for sliding the clutch 58,

by means of a bell` 1,88, a link rod 189, a bell crank 190, and rod 191.

The back facing attachment as shown in Figs. 8 and 9 is easily applied by extending the dog wheel shaft 200, through the head and thus end-of the base, and keying thereto, a cam carrying disk, 194, which carries a cam, 195 operating on roll, 196, on the end of lever 197,

feeding back facer bar 198.

The Ways of the bed of the machine are formed each as a removable bolt-attached strip 199, which is preferably hardened steel. This strip can be trued simply by grinding, and thus the great labor and expense which scraping the ways as ordinarily constructed is saved. A strip can be removed and sent moving said able member, constantly moving means for moving said member, a part movable by said member when the latter is moved directly acting `on said member whose motions are-to be controlled, and a moving member of the machine that causes such means to act.

2. A `machine tool having multiple tools Which act at different times, a member or members whosemotions are to be controlled and a control mechanism comprising a shiftable member, constantly moving means for member when the latter is moved directly acting on said member whose motions are to be controlled, and aslow moving member of the machine that causes such meansto act.

3. A machine tool havingmultiple tools which act at dilerent times, a'member or members Whose motions are to be controlled Vand a control mechanism comprising a shiftablemember, constantly moving means yfor moving said member, a part movable by said member when the latter is moved, directly acting on said lmember whose motions are to be controlled, and a moving member of the machine that causes such means to act, that is adjustable" to change its time ofv action.

4. A machine tool'having multiple tools which act at different times, a member or members whose motions are to be controlled and a control mechanism comprising a shiftable member, spring-actuated means for'moving said member, a part movable by said member when the latter is moved directly acting on said member whose motions are'to be controlled, and a moving member of the machine that causes such means to act.

member, a part movable by said y 5. A machine tool having multiple tools which act at different times, a member or members whose motions are to be controlled and a control mechanism comprising a shiftable member acting upon .one of said firstmentioned members wliose motions are to be controlled, a spring to move said shiftable member in its operating movement, a latch to restrain the action of said spring, and means to release such latch.

6. A machine tool having a member or members whose motions are to be controlled and a control mechanism comprising a shiftable member, a spring to `move said shiftable member in its operating movement, a latch to restrain the motion of said spring, a dog to release such latch, and a dog carrier withl which the dog is adj u'stably connected.

7. A machine tool having a 'member or members whose motions are to be controlled iso ' sitelyacting devices carried bysaid bar for connectinvr and disconnecting the same and said member, and a moving member of the machine to actuate saiddevices to engage said to and fro moving member.

9. In a machine tool thecombination of a spindle, a driving wheel, means to revolve the spindle from the wheel, a tool carrier, a tool feed shaft, a high and constant speed revolving 'member drivingly connected with said wheel, means to drive said feed shaft from said high speed member at a higher speed than its tool feed revolution, a gear connection betweenthe spindle and the feed shaft that is active during feed revolutions of the Y feed' shaft, and means to connect and discon- 'neet said wheel and the'spindle. n

10. A machine tool having a supporting base, a work-spindle situated at substantially the transverse center of the base, a tool slide movable towards and from the work-spindle,

a cross slide situated between said tool slide .35 i

and the work-spindle, and cross slide moving mechanism situated in asidewise direction wholly to one side of the space where the tools cut the work in the spindle.

11. A machine tool having a' supporting base, a work-spindle situated at substantially the transverse center of the base, a tool slide movable towards and from the work-spindle, a cross slide situated between said tool slide and Vthe Vwork-spindle, cross slide moving mechanism situated in a sidewise direction wholly to one side of the space where the tools cut the work in the spindle, and comprising a cam on the outside 'of the base. v

12. A machine tool comprising a housing form base, a tool slide on the top of the base, a horizontal cam drum that engages at the top a part connected with the tool slide to move it said housing base having an opening for passing the cam drum into the base, and means to vsupport the camdrum Within the base with its upper part higher than the top of `said opening.

13. In a machine tool the combination of a tool slide, a cam drum to move the slide, and automatic means to revolve the cam drum intermittently that preserves the synchronism thereof with other moving members of the machine.

14. In a machine tool the combination of a reciprocating tool slide, .i drum, a plurality of cams on the drum, and a plurality of parts on the slide for coaction with respective cams 'situated for successive engagement b vthe :s e .Y

revolutions of tlie'driving Wheel and theA spindle, power operated means for automatically and instantaneously changing such ratio, tool carriers, a tool feed shaft operating said carriers, means to revolve the feed shaft from the spindle, hand means to change the ratio between the revolutions of the spindle and the revolutions o f the feed shaft, power operated means for automatically and instantaneously changing the last named ratio, a high and constant speed revolving member drivingly connected with the constant speed drive wheel, means to drive said feed shaft from said high speed member 'at a higher speed than its toolfeed revolution and means for automatically connecting and disconnect# ing said high speed member and said feed shaft. f l

16. In a machine tool the combination of a spindle, a constant speed driving wheel, means to revolve the spindle fromthewlieel, hand means to change thel ratio between the revolutions of the drivingy wheel and the spindle, power operated means for automati-v cally `and instantaneously changing such ratio, tool carriers, al tool feedshaft operating said carriers, means to revolve the feed shaft from the spindle, hand means to change the ratio between the revolutions of the spindle and the revolutions of the feed shaft,

power operated means for automatically and instantaneously changing ythe last named ratio, a high and constant speed revolving member drivingly connected with theV constant speed drive, means to drive said feed shaft from said high speed member at a, higher speed than its tool feed revolution, means for automatically connecting and disconnecting said high speed member and said feed shaft, and means to connect and disconnect said constant speed drive -wheel and said spindle.

17. The combination ofa work spindle, a'

,tool carrier, means to revolve the spindle,4

means to impart feeding motion to the tool and automatic control mechanism that regulates the rate of tool feed relative to spindle speed While the tool is acting on the same JWork-piece that comprises a shiftable member,means for constantly moving said member, a part movable by said member when the latter is moved,-directly acting to regulate the rate of tool feed relative to'spindle speed, and a moving member of the machine that causes such means to act. s

18. The combination of a work spindle, a

, the rate of tool feed relative and a moving member of tool carrier, means to revolve the spindle, means to impart eeding motion to the tool and automatic control mechanism that reguf lates the rate of tool feed relative to spindle speed While the tool is acting on the same Work-piece, that comprises a shiftable member, means for constantly moving 'said member, a part movable by said member when the latter is moved directly acting to regulate to spindle speed, theanachine that causes such means to act,means for maintaining ratio of spindle speed and tool feed and automatic means for varying the spindle speed. l In testimony signature.

WILLIAM WALACE POTTER.

whereof I hereunto aix` my"l 

